Spring and mattress supporting means



Apr. 3, 1923.

T. B. DRAPER SPRING AND MATTRESS SUPPORTING MEANS File d Sept. 7, 1920 Patented Apr. 3, 1923.

; UNITED srres PATENT. OFFICE.

THOMAS B. DBA'PER, 0F TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

SPRING AND MATTRESS SUPPORTING MEANS,

Application filed September 7,1920. Serial No. 408,655.

and having a foot piece foldable relative to a head piece. In this piece of furniture and adapted to fold therewith is a spring andmattress and this application relates to the supporting means of the spring and mattress so that both may be held taut or compactly. folded.

I also provide means for detachably con meeting the ends of a mattress to its supporting means and the mattress, per se, constitutes a new article of manufacture asit is designed to be folded into a smaller space than an ordinary mattress.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bed structure having a spring and mattress;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan'of a portion of the foot piece of a bed structure, showing the mattress partly broken away and partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a similar view'of the head portion of the mattress, and

Fig. 4 shows detail views of a mattress fastener.

In the drawing, the reference numeral 1 denotes, by the way of an example, a lounge having a back frame 2, a seat cushion 3 and the back cushion 4, said seat and back cushions being unfolded or distended to provide a bed structure.

The back cushion 4 includes a top rail 5 to which is connected an angle bar 6 and suitably secured to said angle bar or adjacent portions of the back cushion 4 is a finishing or trim rail 7 having recessed portions 8 at one of the flangesv of the angle bar 6,

Pivotally mounted in the back frame2, as at 9, are the end flanges 10' of a tiltable angle bar 11 and the lateral flanges of the angle bars 6 and 11' cooperate in holding the ends of a bed spring .12which is flexible and may be folded into the loungebelow the seat cushion 3 and somewhat behind the back cushion 4.

The vertical or other flanges of-the angle bars 6 and 11 are provided with openings or sockets 13 and the openings or sockets 13 of the angle bar 6communicate with the re- I cesses 8 of the rail 7 1 14 denotes a mattress having thin end portions of less depth than the middle portion of the mattress so that the relatively thin end portions of the mattress may be placed in proximity to each other to occupy less space than the comparatively thick middle portion of the mattress. In the thin end portions of the mattress are transverse bars 15 and these bars are provided with turn buttons 16 of a conventional form which are adapted to extend into or through the openings or sockets 13 of the angle bars 6 and 11 and detachably hold theends ofthe mattress. The recesses 8 of the rail 7 permit of easy access being had to the turn buttons 16 at the foot of the bed.

What I claim is 1-. In a folding piece of furniture adapted to be used as a bed and having a foot piece foldable' relative to a head piece, angle bars having sockets, mattress supporting bars,

and turn buttons carried by said bars to en- 8 gage in the angle bar sockets.

2. Means for supporting a spring and I mattress comprising flanges to which the ends of the spring are attached, and flanges to which the ends of the mattress are at tached, the flanges being supported at rightangles to each other.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS B. DRAPER. 

